Okay, this is completely alien to me. Is this a generational thing? A US thing? A southern thing?

It strikes me as a kinda churchy thing, like maybe not church sanctioned necessarily, but an expression of it somehow.

Alien in what way?

I notice they're all blondes. I wonder if they're all natural blondes.

Listening to the Rangers game on my alarm clock radio since I don't get TBS and cannot find my speaker cords for the receiver. GO Rangers!

Blues-Flyers pregame show starts in a bit. They'll be unveiling a statue of Brett Hull. The one my dad didn't get the commission for, so I'm kind of hoping it's fugly.

(But he did get to do one of Bobby Orr for the Bruins, so nyah)

Man, I briefly thought I had no cable and since SPN was delayed until tonight I was quite upset.

I don't know anything about ICP on purpose.

I am Jesse.

Is this a generational thing? A US thing? A southern thing?

Not generational, I'm guessing. You remember the line in Clueless when Paul Rudd says to Silverstone, "College girls wear less make-up, and that's why they are prettier than high school girls." And she looks at him like "less make-up = prettier?!WTF?"

That said, I assume there are still many high school students who don't wear make-up. I didn't. I'd say my friends were fairly evenly split, half did, half didn't. It was never made a deal.

I do find it a bit lame. Like celebrating the eating of soup for lunch on Thursdays.

As an employee of a Southern college with a big sorority quotient, and a one-time attendee of a women's college, I have to say that I am often stunned at the level of personal grooming among the female students here. Not everybody, of course. But a large chunk use tanning beds faithfully, appear to have no leg hair at all ever, have shiny shiny blown-out hair every single day, have super-groomed brows, not a pimple to be seen, and so forth. Even during finals, when they're all wearing the "slob" uniform of black leggings and Uggs and t-shirts. They must spend more time on personal grooming in a day than I do in a week. Signed, 38 year old woman with 1/2 inch leg hair on pasty white legs, ungroomed brows, a pimple on her nose, puffy hair, and hasn't worn makeup since that wedding in May.

Okay, this is completely alien to me.

Is that Comic Sans on the backs of their t-shirts? It never ends!

Anyway, what's alien? The idea that high-school girls would start a group meant to support "natural beauty," or whatever? Or the idea that high-school girls wear so much makeup that it's noteworthy that there's a day that they go makeup-free? Or something else?

(I'm serious about the goddamn Comic Sans.)